A Year of Playing Catch officially publishes tomorrow and I am so excited I couldn’t sleep. Last night, I tossed and turned and eventually crawled out of bed around 5 AM, much to the delight of the dog and cat. I thought about the number 1 ...
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Family
Opening Day
It’s July 23, 2020.
Major League Baseball’s Opening Day.
Players are gearing up for a 60-game season in which they’ll play in stadiums with cardboard cutout fans and piped-in fan noise. Both leagues will employ the Designated Hitter, ...
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Quarantine Catch – Porky McDonald
In November and December of 2019, I dreamed of traveling and making new catch-playing friends leading up to and beyond the publication of A Year of Playing Catch in September. I had a notebook where I wrote down schedules of minor league ...
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Dad
I rode on his shoulders as he ran laps around the indoor gym at the University of Missouri. It’s one of my earliest memories. He was getting exercise, taking a break from working on a degree in Veterinary Medicine. I was the tallest person ...
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The Musical World of Kaylea
In a house on Joyce Street just a few miles north of Waco, Texas, I wrote my very first songs.
While I was in seminary, wrestling with Greek and Hebrew vocabulary words, Jamie worked at the preschool at First Baptist Church of Waco. She ...
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